Pre-orders will soon be open for Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life, a remake of the Harvest Moon GameCube game that's due out in summer 2023.
The game will also be available on Nintendo Switch, PS5, and Xbox Series S|X as both a physical and digital edition, and a Premium Edition will also be available that includes a retail copy of the game, a 3.5-inch-tall goat plushie, and a cloth poster in a custom box, with box art by series illustrator Igusa Matsuyama.
The standalone retail edition will cost $49.99 on all platforms, and the Premium Edition will cost $59.99. Pre-orders will be made available on the Marvelous XSEED website, which will inform you where you can purchase the game.
Currently, these pre-orders seem to be limited to USA and Canada, but we'll let you know if that changes — although Europe and Australia have their own pre-orders open here, with an arguably much worse Limited Edition that includes stickers, a poster, and a notebook.
Will you be pre-ordering A Wonderful Life, or have you been burned too many times on the Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons fire? Tell us in the comments!
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I will pick the PS5 version from the picture above.
Dangit. I gotta get this now. My Buffalo, strawberry cow, bunny and capybara will be lonely otherwise. Look at the widdle horns!!!
@Ryu_Niiyama I think this calls for an intervention
It's funny, cause the game is GOAT.
No really it is. I'm far too stingy to buy special editions normally, but I'll have to make an exception here. <3
Pretty fitting plushie for this one
Marvelous Games Europe has a links to "Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life " up for presale for europe at but no Goat Plushie !
@EaglyTheKawaiiShika I don’t know what you are talking about. cough I am perfectly fine. twitch
@Ryu_Niiyama I know people who can help you people who have beaten the Chonky cow addiction you can too
I had a great time playing this game as a kid...until I built the milking room. After that, there was nothing to buy, even though the milking room's purpose was to make more milk, thus more money. Basically, I had bought everything and my kid was still a toddler. There was nothing to do!
@EaglyTheKawaiiShika not to side step the joke, but it’s funny as I have been playing bokumono since the snes days and I am not that attached to the bubble cows (who are not bubbly in AWL anyway) but it’s surprising how many folks draw the line at the cow design. As AWL was the first bokumono I got married in (as I never wanted to play a heterosexual game) I was mostly attached to Nami and she is still my favorite spouse although Laura is first without nostalgia goggles on.
I feel like I've been in this situation before.....
Just look at him!
4 by 3.5 inches? Lol that must have cost all of 30 cents to make.
@Ryu_Niiyama the AWL cows are still pretty cute. Though we have to admit the cows introduced in the 3DS games are kinda ugly.
Removed - disrespecting others
@Ryu_Niiyama while I don’t really care about dating in games It’s nothing but a positive that they added same sex marriage into the franchise it’s an option that makes people happier there isn’t a single con to adding them if your straight it has no effect on your enjoyment unless you choose to be offended. I also read kates article so I understand why Nami is your choice shes the dark souls of waifus and unintentionally Queer coded. Personally I just think the bubble cows are cute. Thier big fluffballs that just exists. I know this applies to literally everyone but cute animals are cute and I think this franchise could do with a bit of stylization. It looks a bit drab visually and since it’s on the switch photorealistic graphics are out of the picture. The bubble cows aren’t a necessity but they represent what I want out of pretty much any farming sim.
Good the fluffy cows are the hardest hurdle to jump
@Eel To be fair most things on the 3DS are ugly
@HerMajestysmyPronoun as in heterosexual marriage in sims
@EaglyTheKawaiiShika Okay, but what is wrong with that and to such a degree that it compels him or her to entirely avoid those games?
@HerMajestysmyPronoun she meant she plays them she just didn’t get married until she was allowed to marry a female. Before then she was just a bachelorette the whole time
Ah yes, the goat. The most important and memorable animal in this game.
Of course there's a pre-order bonus. Marvelous has to collect that money before people realize how little effort was put into the game. Pioneers of Olive Town ... prove me wrong.
@Eel It’s the eyes. Yeah. They look like they escaped from Romani Ranch. But have PTSD.
@EaglyTheKawaiiShika the sheep are my favorite fluff balls. Although the bunnies in Olive Town make me want a plushie. Oh that reminds me I have a bunny plushie from bokumono. I’ll update my post. I don’t have a problem. I swear.
Edit: you don’t understand. I was hoarding Trick Blues and fossils like they were gold. I think I damaged the ecosystem…
@HerMajestysmyPronoun It would seem you neglected to tag me directly. Or you deleted your comment. If you have a question about what I said I suggest you ask me directly.
got both 3ds games, bought them on sale, think that covers all the stories of seasons I will ever need
@Ryu_Niiyama I did in fact tag the wrong person by accident.
@HerMajestysmyPronoun Cool, short answer to your question I am a Lesbian and simply had absolutely no interest in playing a boy romancing a girl (or a girl romancing a boy) so I always focused on farming (wealthy anti-socialite farmer?) but AWL forces you to get married so that was the first time (and last until the recent remakes which allow same sex marriage) in a bokumono game that I had courted a wife. As such Nami has been my favorite NPC in the series for years. No knock against heteros as I love my parents after all, but I simply have no interest in playing something that I see every day but don’t relate to or have interest in. So single life was good for me until really Olive Town (I did attempt to court Inari because the game just flips pronouns but keeps the same sprite but grew bored with the halfhearted support). Now I can play in a way that fits me and I am a bigger fan than ever because I can enjoy the whole game.
@Ryu_Niiyama 2 things one this site is completely busted and it didn’t alert me to your response. And I’m sorry for getting into an argument about you without you it just felt wrong not to defend you. And she did originally tage you I just responded first and she deleted it
The bunnies and sheep will only bring you temporary happiness they won’t bring you happiness forever. You know how thier made right a single chemistry teacher in a van. You will be left hollow again and you buy more fluffy rabbits to fill the whole untill that’s all you have left
I am up to get all the plushie for Story of Seasons series even if I don't get to play them all or finish them.
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